#stand

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

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Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. ↗

— Frederick II

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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

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The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. ↗

— Frank Gehry

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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

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